RAR Writes: christmas decorations

This Christmas Season came and went in a flash. I enjoyed it thoroughly and spent wonderful quality time with family and friends. However, in the midst, I neglected to share photos of my house decorated for Christmas. So, before it gets too far beyond the Christmas season, here is a Christmas house tour.

Master Bedroom

Foyer

Family Room

Mudroom

Meg Braff's Up in a Tree Bamboo Wallpaper in the Mudroom

Vivi's 5 year old art from school. One of my favorite works of art in our home!

Read more about the Vivid Hue Home DIY X Benches here.

Sunroom

read more about this Vivid Hue Home DIY advent tree here

Read about these easy Vivid Hue DIY Wreaths here.

Study

Guest Bedroom

Do you have multiple trees in your house? Do your trees have different themes? Do you use real or fake? How long do you keep your decorations up after the holidays?

Visit here for a house tour of Vivid Hue Home 'Non-Holiday' Style

I hope you and your family had a blessed and happy holiday season. I really am thankful that so many of you decide to show up on my "doorstep" ever day to see what I have to say. This has been such a fulfilling experience for me and I have ya'll to thank!

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I made an ornament wreath this year. Two of them. Easy peasy and so decorative.

Here are the items required for the wreath:

Steps required to make the ornament wreath:

I literally started by hot gluing an ornament on each "side" of the circular foam. I continued by filling in the spaces, working to fit the ornaments together in somewhat of a pattern. Sort of like fitting puzzle pieces together.

Over time, most of the surface was populated with ornaments but traces of the green foam still peaked out between.

I simply continued adding balls on top of each other, almost forming an additional layer of ornaments. My goal was to hide as much of the green form as possible. After awhile, it looked like this (below) and I worried that I'd gone over board. (Nah, the more garish --for me-- the better in the case of this whimsical little wreath).

I finished with a string of garland beads and draped them around the wreath. Any spaces of the original foam were easily hidden by pushing a few beads down the crevices between the ornaments.

And the finished result was two of these babies: (only one shown here, but I have them both on these French doors leading into the sunroom).

A few tips/ lessons learned:

I needed many more ornaments than I originally thought. I started with about 40 ornaments per wreath and I ended up going back to Michaels to purchase more. In total, I'd estimate each wreath required about 60 ornaments.

In hindsight, I would have wrapped the green foam circle in red ribbon (or ribbon to match the ornaments. That way, any angles from the side that were left uncovered would be more attractive. Also, it would require fewer ornaments "layering on top" of each other to hide the circle form.

This DIY project was super easy with fun results!

For ideas DIY Ornaments, Check out "DIY Felt Ornaments in 10 Minutes"

For a tour of Vivid Hue's Home in Christmas-decoration-progress for 2013, check out "Christmas Garland and Tree Tour"

View Vivid Hue Home's 2012 Christmas Tablescape here.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you're enjoying the holiday season! If you're new to my blog, please follow me! I love friends and I follow back.

Cheers, Heather | Vivid Hue Home